Simplify Kubernetes management at scale with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management

Managing multiple Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments has become increasingly complex over time. That's why we include Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes in Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus. These features and capabilities aim to help teams lower costs, drive operational efficiencies and capitalize on innovative new methods to help platform engineering teams consistently deliver environments for end users.

Embracing Kubernetes diversity

With Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management version 2.11, in addition to already supporting management across Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon EKS, Microsoft AKS, IBM IKS and Google GKE, we now include an expanded support matrix, including support for all distributions in the Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program. No matter the size or complexity of your fleet, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management truly offers a unified management experience. This means reduced operational overhead by consolidating existing tooling into one, enhanced consistency across varied environments, and improved governance – all from a centralized management portal.

Streamlined operator management

Managing various Kubernetes operators at scale can be an immense challenge. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.11 changes that. With improved OLM (Operator Lifecycle Manager) integration, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management simplifies the entire operator life cycle across your growing fleet:

• Installation: Streamlined through the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management governance console
• Updates: Controlled and visible
• Deletion: One-click removal

This new approach can save time, reduce errors and enable operators to be consistent across their entire fleet of clusters.

Automated ROSA discovery and import

Many of our Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management customers are investing in SRE-managed Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), Red Hat’s managed OpenShift offering running on AWS. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.11 introduces an automated discovery and import feature that scans your AWS environment, identifies ROSA clusters and imports them automatically into the management hub. The result? Time savings and reduced manual errors in onboarding your existing clusters for additional day 2 management and observability tasks.

Global Hub: Your multicluster command center

Expanding the scale of your fleet to massive numbers? Managing multiple diverse sites and sectors? If you’re finding the need to have multiple Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management hubs, no worries: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.11’s Global Search feature is your new best friend. It provides:

• Unified Management View: See all your clusters across all hubs
• Cross-Hub Inventory Search: Quickly find resources, regardless of location 
• Saved  Searches: Define and personalize searches that you regularly come back to
• Export to CSV: A quick way to export a report that can be used across adjacent teams

This feature transforms your view of the growing fleet, ensuring you can see end to end centrally, and rapidly drive actions where appropriate.

Advanced control and insights

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.11 delivers several key enhancements to gain control and deeper insights:

1. Policy non-compliance: Visualize the “difference between the current state of configured resources and the desired state of the policy using either the UI or API
2. OpenShift Virtualization observability: Get a unified view of containerized and virtualized workloads, on premises and across the hybrid cloud
3. Right-size recommendations (Enhanced Developer Preview):  Optimize resource allocation in cluster namespaces, potentially leading to significant cost savings.
4. Precision RBAC (Technology Preview): Enhance security and reduce cognitive load with granular control over observability access.

These features collectively provide deeper insights, enable proactive management and allow platform engineering teams to optimize resource utilization across their Kubernetes landscape.

The bottom line

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.11 addresses key pain points in multi-cluster management and empowers organizations to:

• Streamline operations across diverse Kubernetes environments
• Automate routine tasks, freeing up valuable time for innovation
• Gain comprehensive visibility into cluster health and performance
• Enhance security posture across the entire fleet

Whether you’re running a handful of clusters or at a global scale, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.11 offers the tools to do it more efficiently, securely and effectively. Welcome to the future of cluster management. It’s here, and it’s powered by Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.11.

As cluster environments grow in size and number, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.11 makes management simpler. It helps organizations get the most out of their environments with less effort.

Ready to explore these new features? Visit the documentation page to learn more and get started, and watch this YouTube playlist to find out more.